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Thirty Months for Libby

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Tim Annett

Updated June 5, 2007 12:30 p.m. ET

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff for Vice President Cheney, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for perjury and obstructing the investigation into the leaking of Central Intelligence Agency employee Valerie Plame's identity to the media.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said that the evidence had overwhelmingly demonstrated Mr. Libby's guilt and said that those who hold senior government jobs, "where they have the welfare and security of nation in their hands, have a special...